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Lessons learnt from multifaceted diagnostic approaches to the first 150 families in Victoria’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program
Correspondence to Professor Tiong Yang Tan, Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; tiong.tan{at}vcgs.org.au Background Clinical ...
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Pancreatic cancer risk in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome patients: a large cohort study and implications for surveillance
1 Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Pathology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The ...
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Arteriovenous malformation from a patient with JP-HHT harbours two second-hit somatic DNA alterations in SMAD4
Background Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an inherited disorder of vascular malformations. It is caused by inherited loss-of-function mutations in one of three genes, ENG, ACVRL1 or ...
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Clinical features for diagnosis and management of patients with PRDM12 congenital insensitivity to pain
Background Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare extreme phenotype characterised by an inability to perceive pain present from birth due to lack of, or malfunction of, nociceptors. PRDM12 ...
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Microdeletions on 6p22.3 are associated with mesomelic dysplasia Savarirayan type
Introduction Mesomelic dysplasias are a group of skeletal disorders characterised by shortness of the middle limb segments (mesomelia). They are divided into 11 different categories. Among those ...
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Fraser syndrome and cryptophthalmos: review of the diagnostic criteria and evidence for phenotypic modules in complex malformation syndromes
1 National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 49, Room 4B75, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4472, USA 2 Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s National ...
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Mutation in cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA in a family with fibromyalgia is associated with NLRP3-inflammasome activation
9 Unidad de Reproducción Humana y Cirugía Endoscópica, Instituto para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción Humana (INEBIR), Sevilla, Spain Correspondence to Dr Mario D Cordero, IBiS Institute ...
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Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome: more than meets the eye
Background Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) is characterised by typical anterior segment anomalies, with or without systemic features. The discovery of causative genes identified ARS subtypes with ...
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Improving diagnosis and broadening the phenotypes in early-onset seizure and severe developmental delay disorders through gene panel analysis
Background We sought to investigate the diagnostic yield and mutation spectrum in previously reported genes for early-onset epilepsy and disorders of severe developmental delay. Methods In 400 ...
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Genomic analysis of mitochondrial diseases in a consanguineous population reveals novel candidate disease genes
1 Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Pediatrics, King Khalid University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud ...
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Mutation in TDRD9 causes non-obstructive azoospermia in infertile men
Background Azoospermia is diagnosed when sperm cells are completely absent in the ejaculate even after centrifugation. It is identified in approximately 1% of all men and in 10%–20% of infertile males ...
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Advancing in Schaaf-Yang syndrome pathophysiology: from bedside to subcellular analyses of truncated MAGEL2
Background Schaaf-Yang syndrome (SYS) is caused by truncating mutations in MAGEL2, mapping to the Prader-Willi region (15q11-q13), with an observed phenotype partially overlapping that of Prader-Willi ...